Crossword Puzzle Number 1489 (Medium Grid)

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1. A French abbot.
5. A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh.
11. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
15. Pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment.
16. One of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind.
17. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
18. A watercourse that carries water away from a mill or water wheel or turbine.
20. By a small margin.
22. (chemistry) Relating or belonging to the class of chemical compounds having a carbon basis.
24. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
25. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
29. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
32. A group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting).
33. The month following March and preceding May.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
41. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
44. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
45. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
50. The branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that cause motions of bodies.
53. Not out.
54. (informal) Roused to anger.
55. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
56. A water wheel with buckets attached to the rim.
57. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
60. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds.
61. A member of the Wakashan people living on Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery region of northwestern Washington.
65. A radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding curium with carbon ions.
68. A member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara.
69. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
70. Live so as to annul some previous behavior.
73. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
74. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
75. Capable of being scaled.
77. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
78. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
79. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Of or being the lowest female voice.
2. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
3. Two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts.
4. Spin or twist together so as to form a cord.
5. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
6. A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style.
7. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
8. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet.
9. Being nine more than forty.
10. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. Causing fear or dread or terror.
13. An expression of greeting.
14. Israeli general and statesman (1915-1981).
19. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
26. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
27. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
28. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
30. A hardy genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and northern Africa and western Asia.
31. A conventional name for a bear used in tales following usage in the old epic "Reynard the Fox".
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. In bed.
40. A person of mean disposition.
42. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
43. (heraldry) Applied to a fish depicted horizontally.
47. Narrow and long and pointed.
49. Not wearing rouge.
51. Invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell.
52. A large sawing machine.
58. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
59. Lower in esteem.
62. An evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
66. Look at with amorous intentions.
67. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
71. A tube in which a body fluid circulates.
72. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
76. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.

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